Atlantic article about library digitization efforts DPLA

[Garson O'Toole]

The website of "The Atlantic" has an article about the efforts of the
coalition operating under the banner "Digital Public Library of
America":

Title: Inside the Quest to Put the World's Libraries Online
Author: Esther Yi
Date: July 26, 2012
Website: theatlantic.com

The website describes the author as follows: "Esther Yi does story
research for The Atlantic."

http://bit.ly/McSj60

[Begin excerpt]
The Digital Public Library of America wants to make millions of books,
records, and images available to any American with an Internet
connection. Can it succeed where others have failed?

In his short story "The Library of Babel," Jorge Luis Borges imagines
the universe as a "total library," whose 410-page books have achieved
all possible combinations of letters and punctuation. No two books are
the same. Some, of course, are gibberish. But others carry the answer
to life's deepest mysteries. In Borges's library can be found every
thought ever had, every turn of phrase ever uttered, every masterpiece
penned by Shakespeare, and even the ones that he never got to
write—simply stated, everything.
[End excerpt]

Garson

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